Here's a gal who thinks she would like to live as they did in Victorian age , specifically ,1889. Mostly because of the women's fashion. As she thinks it's cool to wear corsets and crotchless pantalettes.

That may be fine but to live as they did in 1889 means some severe changes in life style.

Horses every where. Which means horse crap every whereNo air conditioningVery limited electricityHeating with wood or coal or heating oilCooking with same.No refrigerator. They did have ice boxes. Which required one to get large blocks of ice to put in an insulated box. One had to get the ice from a ice factory or shag the ice man who made regular routes through the streetsDoing laundry by wash board and hanging it on a line. Cooking was a day long activityLimited telephone alsoAnd no plastic products. One forgets how much we rely on plastic.

Dave

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they're ignorant to how many people died from routine diseases we totally dismiss today..I'm not talking plague... I mean staph infections, pneumonias, water and food brone diseases like typhoid fever, cholera, ... Look at this list:Cholera: President Polk -1849Tchaikovsky - 1893Jim Bowie’s Mexican wife, 2 children - 1833 - he ended up at the Alamo because of thisTyphoid Fever:Pericles 426 BC Franz Shubert -1828 British prince consort Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha - 1861 - aka Prince Albert William Wallace Lincoln - 1862. (Mary had TF but survived). Leland Stanford, Jr. son of Leland Stanford - founded Univ. Wilbur Wright -1912Sen Stephen A. Douglas of the Lincoln Douglas debates -1861Typhus:Plague of Athens 430 BC.1812- (30%) of Napoleon’s army retreating from Moscow. More than were killed in battle.1918-1922 epidemic killed 3 million of 20-30 million cases.1941 struck German army as they invaded Russia.1945 - epidemic in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp killed Anne Frank and her sister Margot.

AND this isn't a complete list of famous people !! I could go on but you get the idea.

.No air condition when I was a kid either. We just sweat-ed and stank! Actually, we were forced to sit on the screened in porch each evening and visit with folks walking by and listened to radio shows. Lots of times we slept out there too.

If we slept in our rooms and beds we tried not to move around too much and to find a spot on the bed and pillow that was not wet with perspiration and maybe felt a little cool.

It was worse than he!! lots of the times.

Movies had big banners on the marquees saying "Air-conditioned Inside" and they drummed up business that way. We'd go and stay for hours.

Oh yes, we had sweat pads to wear so underarm perspiration didn't ruin a good dress. [They didn't work after getting soaked.]

Right. I think she really hasn't thought this through. Of it's just the clothing then, there is very little stoping her from not wearing underwear at all, or wear the corset . Shucks, back in 2009, I wore a corset of such for about three months while the hole in my belly healed after a botched surgery.

I remember a few times I didn't wear underwear on the farm as a lad. And several pair of my underwear had enough holes in them to qualify as being "no underwear".

Air conditioning? What was that?Dave

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